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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Chassis Fabrication: Back In The Shop With Shannon Campbell For A New Build

Shannon Campbell is back at it after King of the Hammers in California, and despite breaking some stuff during the Race of Kings, he’s ready to get back at it with some new projects at the...

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Leah Pruett Makes Her Dodge TSR NHRA Top Fuel Return After Two-year Hiatus, Teams Up with Four-time Champ Matt Hagan at Season-opening NHRA Gatornationals

Leah Pruett makes her NHRA Top Fuel return, after a two-year break, at the upcoming NHRA Gatornationals on March 5-8 in the nitro-burning Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) Dodge dragster Pruett, a 12-time...

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Can Ryan Make This Fairmont Run 6’s In The 1/8 For Under 6K? How About Naturally Aspirated With A 5.0?

I love budget builds. Hell, everything I own is a budget build. But sometimes I think folks are just trying to make things harder on themselves. I mean Ryan’s mismatched Fairmont is a GREAT...

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Lights Out 17 Testing Livestream And Video: It’s Time For Radial Revolution 2026 At South Georgia Motorsports Park

It’s time for Lights Out 17, Winter’s favorite radial race, and thanks to NC Promoder we can all watch testing and highlights as Monday and Tuesday had teams doing shakedown hits to see...

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Save $800 With This Harbor Freight Tool Box Hack! Build Your Own Custom Big Box On The Cheap

Harbor Freight is now the largest retail tool store in the country, and for good reason. They have been offering tools at cheap prices for decades, but in recent years took full advantage of the...

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First Round Radial vs The World Qualifying From Lights Out 17 at South Georgia Motorsports Park

If you haven’t been watching the livestream here everyday, you might have missed RVW qualifying from yesterday so here’s a highlight video you can check out to see all the action and...

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Street Car Takeover At Beech Bend: Shut Up And Line Up On Saturday Morning!

Friday night’s roll racing was fun to watch, but being fair, it wasn’t that perfect. You could blame an unprepared surface, the lack of a straight shot onto the track, or how some...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Diagnosing Problems Over The Phone? How About I Just Shake The Magic 8-Ball?

Ever since I was a kid wearing the small paper sack that Uncle Benny got with his “breakfast in a can”, two things were apparent to everyone that knew me. One, I was going to have a...

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This 1974 Dodge D300 Flatbed Is Perfection! This Black Beauty Looks Ready To Either Show Or Work!

When it comes to trucks, I am actually pretty easy to figure out: manual transmissions, large V8 or diesel, single-cab, dually, and if possible, a flatbed. I like my trucks ready to work. Nothing...

The Best Part Of Waking Up: Blower Car Burnouts From Western Australia!

It never fails: At the end of a long day, we come home, sweaty, tired, in desperate need of a shower, a cold drink and rest. The shower and cold drink happen…the resting part, sometimes. But...

More Street Sweepers From Sweden! What’s Your Pleasure: Big-Block Chevelle, Small-Block Volvo, Blown And Nitrous Mustang, Or Turbocharged Four-Bangers From Hell?

Sweden: land of Ikea, meatballs and ABBA, right? True, if you’re sticking to the stereotypical jokes, but if you actually think they are true, do you have another thing coming to you. From the...

Rally Kart: This Is An Idea That Needs To Be Turned Into A Series – This Video Will Have You Craving One

Later this week I will detail the adventure Nutting and I had riding in rally cars with professional drivers through the New Hampshire. Today however we’re here to show you something that a...

This Motorcycled Engined Riding Lawn Mower Is Completely Awesome And We’d Probably Die On It

Given the chance to drive this creation, I’d gladly hand the keys to Chad. Why? Because nothing would give me more joy than to see him, with a big smile on his face, beard flapping in the...

Rough Start: This 1986 Pontiac Grand Prix 2+2 Could Be Your Investment Car

Out of all of the GM A/G body cars that were built, not one was more polarizing than the 1986 Pontiac Grand Prix 2+2 Aerocoupe. We will spare you the long story: In short terms, Richard Petty wanted...

Morning Symphony: Listen To This 8-Second Fox Mustang Rip Through The Gears!

Happiness is ripping gears with three pedals, one shifter, and the knowledge needed to launch and shift without turning the clutch to a shredded mess and the gears into neat little metal pellets in...

Can You Fix A Leaky Transmission? If So, This Back-Halved, Mid-Engine V8-Swapped 1982 VW Vanagon Could Be A Great Deal!

The Facebook post from Joe Jolly was innocent enough: “McTaggart! Is this BangShifty?” Not quite sure why I’m the person to ask…half of the time, most people think I’ve...

Video Bonanza: Big Carnage from Stuck Throttles

The other day we were talking about Toyota’s global, epic throttle sticking fail that actually wasn’t and we thought that we’d bring you a bunch of videos showing all different...

Street Car Takeover At Beech Bend: Friday Night Roll Racing Action!

I have certain barometers for whether or not an event will be good, but the ultimate measuring stick I have is when Brian blows my phone up, making sure that I’m going. Street Car Takeover has...

Watch This Huge Russian Truck Pull A Load Of Logs Out Of The Woods And Through The Muck Like A Mechanical Mule

This is one of those rare occasions that we run video from Russia that does not include a beating, a car accident, or some other incredible form of automotive failure. In this video we get a look at...

Watch Tim Cullinan Turn His Front Motor Top Fueler Into A Trike TWICE On The Same Run And Save It!

Front motor top fuel cars are among the least appreciated vehicles in drag racing. Their numbers peaked in the 1990s and have basically declined since then, leaving us with less than two dozen really...